Chapter 61 My Heart Fluttered
Jiang Zhizhi didn't want to admit that she was attracted by the rice!
She thought that if she stayed for dinner, Zhou Xiye would go to the cafeteria to get the food, but to her surprise, Zhou Xiye took her directly to the cafeteria to eat.
Because it's located on a mountain, the so-called canteen is just a huge tent set up on an open space. It's usually used for meetings and study sessions, and it serves as a canteen when there are group meals. For regular meals, people from different classes bring their food back to eat.
Zhang Zhao and Wang Changkun were stunned when they saw the pretty Jiang Zhizhi with Zhou Xiye as his companion.
Wang Changkun didn't react much. Although he was married, he was still slow to understand emotions, unlike Zhang Zhao, who was quick-witted.
Jiang Zhizhi followed behind Zhou Xiye, watching the rows of military green uniforms pass by. She felt a little dazed, as if she had returned to her previous life.
Zhou Xiye asked Jiang Zhizhi to wait aside for a moment, and he would go up to speak after the team had assembled.
Jiang Zhizhi stood to the side, watching Zhou Xiye speak. Her posture was like a pine tree on a high mountain, quite different from her usual composure. Her tone was still stern, but with more passion. Her voice was also not its usual unhurried manner, but deep and powerful.
Instead, it was a very loud voice. Because there were so many people, he was afraid that everyone would not be able to hear him clearly, so he raised his tone a few notches and even cracked a little at the end. But that still couldn't stop the momentum. Standing there, he was clearly just one person, but he brought out the momentum of a thousand troops.
Jiang Zhizhi watched and listened, becoming somewhat fascinated.
It wasn't until the loud singing started that Jiang Zhizhi came to her senses and realized that Zhou Xiye had come over and was standing next to her at some point, standing tall and looking at the group with a cold expression.
After the song ended, the soldiers lined up to enter the tents and took their seats. Zhou Xiye turned slightly to look at Jiang Zhizhi and said, "Go in."
Jiang Zhizhi sat with Zhou Xiye, Zhang Zhao, Wang Changkun, and several instructors and staff officers she had never met before.
Zhang Zhao had a lot to say to Jiang Zhizhi, but seeing the boss's piercing gaze, he decided to pretend he didn't hear and focus on eating.
The team has two meals a month, and the food is much better. There are four dishes, two meat and two vegetable dishes, and everyone can eat as much as they want. The rice is plain white rice, unlike usual when we have to add millet or sorghum.
Looking at the table full of braised pork, braised fish, stir-fried cabbage, and stewed radish chunks, Jiang Zhizhi thought to herself that she was really lucky to have just arrived at the team's feast.
Zhou Xiye started eating, and only then did the others at the table begin to pick up their chopsticks.
Everyone was eating from small yellow enamel bowls. Jiang Zhizhi only heard the sound of chopsticks clattering against the bowls, a rapid clanging sound, and no one in the greenhouse spoke.
Jiang Zhizhi was not a slow eater, but seeing Zhang Zhao and the others carrying their rice bowls and shoveling food into their mouths like raindrops, eating quickly and in a boisterous manner, her movements obviously slowed down a lot.
Seeing Jiang Zhizhi hurriedly shoveling rice into her mouth, Zhou Xiye stopped eating and looked at Zhang Zhao: "The report you wrote a couple of days ago, was it Staff Officer Wang who helped you write it?"
Zhang Zhao was a little confused by the question. He looked up, wiped the rice from the corner of his mouth, and stared blankly at Zhou Xiye: "Boss, wasn't that report approved?"
When the others saw Zhang Zhao being suddenly called out, they also slowed down their movements.
Zhou Xiye nodded: "You've passed, but you'll have to write them yourself from now on. If you ask Staff Officer Wang for help again, then you might as well let him be your company commander."
Zhang Zhao grinned shamelessly, "Boss, don't worry, there won't be a next time. But the braised pork today was really delicious, it even tasted a little sweet?"
A cadre from the south next to him agreed: "Today's braised pork has a bit of the taste of our south. It feels like I'm tasting the flavor of home."
Once someone started the conversation, others began to discuss it, and the pace of eating slowed down.
Jiang Zhizhi also thought the braised pork was very delicious. It was slightly sweet, soft and tender. Most importantly, the pork nowadays doesn't contain lean meat enhancers, so it has a thick layer of fat. When you bite into it, it sizzles with oil and leaves a lingering fragrance in your mouth.
She rarely ate fatty meat in her original world, finding it too greasy to eat.
I only realized after coming into this world that it was because I had plenty of oil and fat in my belly before.
Zhang Zhao glanced at the bowl of meat, most of which was already gone, while Jiang Zhizhi had only taken two or three pieces. His eyes lit up, and he ran to the kitchen to get a large ladle. Without a word, he scooped a spoonful and poured it into Jiang Zhizhi's bowl, then started serving it to others: "Hurry up and share! I want to use this broth to mix with my rice; it smells so good! What kind of life would it be to eat braised pork every day?"
As he spoke, he divided half a bowl of meat among everyone, leaving only some soup for himself, and then went to get some rice.
Seeing that there was no meat in Zhang Zhao's bowl, Zhou Xiye scooped all the meat from his own rice bowl into Zhang Zhao's bowl and gave it to him: "Eat more rice and talk less."
Zhang Zhao chuckled: "I knew it, our boss still cares about me the most!"
Jiang Zhizhi looked at the meat in the rice bowl. Zhang Zhao had given her the most, and it was mostly lean meat, but she couldn't eat it all. She wanted to take some back, but then she felt that the rice bowl she had already eaten from wasn't very good.
After hesitating for a moment, she looked at Zhou Xiye and said, "I can't finish all of this. The rice on top didn't touch mine, and I haven't touched it. I'll share it with you."
Zhou Xiye glanced at her cautious tone, then took her rice bowl and scooped half of the meat from it into his own: "Can you finish this?"
Jiang Zhizhi saw that Zhou Xiye had already eaten some rice, and her ears were burning as she quickly nodded, "Yes, I can finish it."
Zhou Xiye hummed in agreement and calmly picked up his bowl to eat.
While shoveling rice into his mouth, Zhang Zhao kept giving winks and gesturing to the people at the table, his eyes almost twitching!
The others naturally noticed, and they knew that the boss treated this female technician differently, but they didn't expect it to be this special! They ate the fragrant braised pork while watching the commotion.
Jiang Zhizhi was mentally strong enough to calmly finish her meal.
After the meal, Zhou Xiye called the soldiers from the communications platoon and took Jiang Zhizhi to his tent.
Zhang Zhao then became more lively, nudging Wang Changkun: "Boss, you've gotten quite bold now, aren't you? Don't you care about appearances at all?"
Wang Changkun was a little confused: "Avoid suspicion? What?"
Zhang Zhao gave him a disdainful look: "How many years have you been following the boss?"
Wang Changkun calculated: "Seven years."
Zhang Zhao nodded: "Look, it's been seven years. When have you ever seen the boss treat a female comrade this well? Last year, when the cultural troupe came down to perform, one of the female comrades sprained her ankle and asked the boss to carry her down the mountain. At that time, the boss immediately had someone bring a stretcher over."
Then, with a confident look, he said, "I bet you, if Technician Jiang were injured, the boss would definitely carry him down the mountain himself."
Wang Changkun pondered for a moment: "That's not a bad idea either."
He was injured, so we carried him down the mountain. There's nothing wrong with that.
Zhang Zhao sighed. Oh well, these days, he's the only one who truly cares about his boss!
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